DIG

Research into archeological traces of weaving in Norway and Egypt. The two projects fused into the making of several pieces. The research into ancient Egyptian textiles at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden is combined with a study of Scandinavian weaving fragments during an artist’s residency in Norway. The resulting pieces are an entanglement of the ancient Egyptian ritual of shrouding the dead and the discovery at archeological digs of two rows of evenly shaped stones. Weaving stones signified the place where once a loom stood.

Stitch Your Brain

Stitch Your Brain publication, 2024.

A 10 year study about making by hand and the effects on learning, health and well-being.

Grants from Creative Industries, Stokroos, Voor Vrouwen Door Vrouwen, Gawthorpe Textiles 

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The intelligence of the hand

Weaving, taken out of its traditional context is a contemporary artform. Weaving has an intellectual and a manual side, a combination of the  material knowledge of hands, imagination and digital technology. The hand is the interface and in this way the weaver is a protagonist of our times, especially in the experience of time itself. Go to:  Weeflab , Amsterdam. 

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©2024
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All rights reserved 2024© | Nothing can be published without notification of the artist. Design: Rebrandt©
©2024
All rights reserved
All rights reserved 2024© | Nothing can be published without notification of the artist. Design: Rebrandt©